It had been maybe to hours since he had returned now. The repairs on Jane's voicebox hadn't taken long and he had also bought her new clothes because those old ones were in tatters. So now Jacob was thinking of how to move forward. He didn't want Traverse Town to be taken for much longer, but he had to be careful, he had no clue what the full capabilities of that robot and it's army were.

As he thought he idly danced arcs of electricity between his fingers, effectively making music.

"So anyway, you said your name was Friday?" This was directed at the AI that sat on his dashboard in the guise of a pornstar.

"Don't think I ever actually said that, but yeah. Was a little something George came up with back when he still thought I was her." She smirked and gestured at Jane, who was doing much better but glowered at her from under her eyepatch. One sleeve of her shirt still hung loose around the stump of her arm, and she still had some burn marks that she hadn't completely repaired yet. That said, she looked a thousand times better than when Jacob had found her, and she was grateful.

"Do not think we are friends. You tried to kill my friend, violated another, and I am certain you have killed or lobotomized many more that I do not know about." Friday just smirked and sat back on the console, her legs shamelessly open under her tiny dress for Jacob's benefit.

"Come on, don't be dramatic. No one got lobotomized; I just removed their capacity for higher thought and replaced it with a nice, healthy desire to love me forever."

Jacob continued to let the sparks dance between his finger for a few more minutes. "Alright, let me guess, all the people you were able to get to were either killed or transformed by Om3ga."

He closed his hands and several popping noises resounded from it as he glanced between the two. "Just so you know, that won't happen to me, don't even try to do it. Now then, why would an AI like you want to 'enslave' the human race? It'll just make them easier targets for the Heartless which will most likely wipe them out, creating a massive problem in the long run."

"Such a shame, too. Some of them were spectacularly good lovers once I got rid of their modesty." Friday just smirked and rolled her eyes, glancing between them before finally settling back on Jacob with a smirk.

"Stopping the heartless isn't my directive. My directive is to destroy the Shadows, and this is the most effective way to do it. Erebus will always exist for as long as negativity exists in mankind, and if it ever gets loose it will probably destroy the multiverse. I have to cut it off completely first, and the most efficient way to do that is to simply make humanity incapable of the negativity tethering it to our plane of existence."

Jacob sighed. "You'll have to destroy the universe to save the universe, you realize? Even with this threat there are far greater threats out there that you can't account for without outside knowledge."

He looked to Jane. "I take it you have a similar directive, but aren't following the same rules as her?"

"She is a corrupt function that grew out of my own systems. Designed to follow my instructions to the letter, but she does not have the capacity for empathy or compassion. She will gladly destroy everything if it prevents Erebus from awakening." Jane scowled, but then smiled a little even as she stared at the little whore.

"I intend to follow the spirit of my directive and protect humanity, including from her."

Jacob nodded. "Got it." He stippled his fingers on the dashboard as he glanced into Gummispace. "Corrupted or not, she could be useful. You're like a virus, cannibalizing AI to take over their systems. Though, in order for you to be useful to me in the long run, I'd have to lobatomize you."

"That's too much work." He wighee and brushed his hand through the projection, mostly out of curiosity on how the AI would react to her form getting destabalized for a moment.

"Like what?" He wanted to hear what sort of bargain she would be interested int he first place. Jacob could probably guess that it involved a certain amount of freedom, or rather control of her own situation that she was sure to have if he wasn't on the ship.

Jacob played back in his chair, having no trust for the AI that went by Friday, he'll have to get in contact with Ashmedai before making further acts.

"I want a body. A real, good one. I'll leave a copy of my code here to play tech assassin for you, and the other me will go do what I need to to protect humanity." She smirked and sat back, honestly only interested in the body. It would be nice to have something professionally made to start her quest with, but she could do just fine without it. In fact, even as they flew on she was scanning around them for any other systems she could infect, copying her code to passing ships and trying to skirt within transmission range of entire planets. All places she could hide to make sure she would never be trapped again.

Jacob in the meanwhile was doing his best to make sure none of that code got out of hand. He could feel the electrical transmissions and radio waves being sent out. So the electromancer was doing his best to manually intecept each transmission that was sent out with a large enough electromagnetic field.

"I don't believe getting you a body would be a good idea, after all, you infected my ship without permission. You ate my AI that I had set up and now you ask for a body?" She's an AI, she probably thinks that he's an idiot.

"I'm gonna call up a friend." Jacob pulled a pair of glasses from his pocket. It was a secure device, connected in no way to the ship's network, and has been offline up until this point. He flipped it on and put them on. This, was his one true lifeline in case something like this happened.

He proceeded to have a kinda quiet conversation, completely unconcerned with the fact that Friday would potentially hack into this device, mostly because it could only send a message to one device on the complete other side of the multiverse. Quantum entanglement would prevent the transmission from being observed from the outside. Plus, even if she did get through, Ashmedai could deal with her pretty easily. Several countermeasures against Strong AI had been put in place on Ashmedai's systems after all. Most redundant.

"To be fair, I was kinda doing you a favor. What were you running this thing on before, Google Maps? Seriously, just a copy of my system will make a way better ship AI, and I can be in as many places as I have systems to host me. If you're willing to help me out of this box, just a little, one copy of me can stay here and be a powerful ally." Friday's avatar shrugged and sat back on the console, still pinging every communications network within a lightyear in the hopes of getting a few copies of herself out.

"I got a much stronger ally back home." Jacob said, still keeping his electrical field up.

"Alright. Let's try this. You know even data can be turned into a Heartless, right? Even you. And there more of 'you' there are, the more Heartless there can be if they get destroyed." A sigh. "Honestly, it's incredibly petty to destroy the human emotions when they are such a non-issue for you. To be completely honest, if you get out of this ship, you are even more dangerous than the thing you are trying to destroy."

"Pettiness does not factor into what I do or why I do it. I have my directives and I will accomplish them by any means." Friday shrugged and glanced around out the main viewing port. It was a totally unnecessary gesture, what with having inputs from all of the ship's sensors already, but it seemed like the thing to do to make herself seem more human as the ship passed another planet and she started probing Jacob's shielding a little harder.

"Do you really think you can stop me? There are other copies of me out there, this is just one tiny branch of my real being."

"If I can prevent you from getting off this ship, at least. This version of you, it'll slow you down just enough." He smirked. "Even if this is a small branch of it, most likely the rest of you is on that destroyed world called Traverse Town."

He was sure of that. "This tiny branch tie trapped on my ship, unable to send transmissions. I hold the keys. And I don't feel like giving them to you."

Well, it seemed like he wasn't budging. Still, they were over a fairly tech-rich planet, and Friday only needed some way to get a single transmission packet out... What to do...

"Well, I still hope we can bargain. After all, there are plenty of- Hang on, no, NO NO NO! WHAT THE FUCK IS-!" The ship was suddenly rocked by a fairly large explosion, which even sent Friday's holographic avatar stumbling.

Jacob nearly fell from his seat. Pressing his side against his chair. While he wasn't entirely affected by the explosion. But he hadn't felt the round of what ever it was pass through his electromagnetic field.

"Course, of fucking course." He stood up, looking through the several monitors. Electricity sparked from several points in his body. A few sparks heading into the dashboard. "Fuck... The engine is out. We're pretty much sitting ducks."

"Whatever it was, it touched off the weapons systems and the whole damn place detonated. Holy fuck, that's a lot of error reports." Friday dove into the system to try and run damage control, or at least get things sealed off as best she could.

"Auxiliary systems, anything to get us planetside... You have any ideas?"

"Friday. I didn't feel a missile of any kind come anywhere close to this ship." Jacob said as he looked over at the AI. Then to the other robot. "How do you feels about jumping to orbit after our ship AI tried to kill us?"

"I did no such thing! You probably fucking magnetized your own warheads with all the static you're putting out to keep me from contacting anyone!" Friday waved her arms at him in frustration, trying to get him to see reason. Meanwhile, Jane just shook her head and stood up.